then Google Hangouts on Air shut down last week, leading to the shit show that happened over the weekend

imagine being so retarded that you can't figure out how to use OBS

hahaha boomer tech

i didn't know they were killing off hangouts on air

yeah Google phased it out so people would use the new built in webcam streaming with YouTube

also, all serious streamers already use OBS or XSplit

that's pretty lame since the easiest way to do multicalls is with hangouts on air

I switched to Streamlabs OBS well over a year ago so I could simulcast to YouTube and Twitch

which saved my ass when I got a strike

yeah doing group calls with video is gonna have to be done with Skype now

and I hate Skype

it's such a bloated and unwieldy program

although this might cut down on the shitty video podcast livestreams

skype was messy when i used it with OBS but it did work

that's in part why I want a new computer: my current computer probably isn't going to be able to handle the load of running Skype and OBS simultaneously

i've never tried the other OBS forks, but i like the studio feature in OG OBS

I was having problems with OBS before I added more RAM and bought an SSD

and now I'm having problems again

I can't window stream properly anymore, for example

you'll notice whenever I'm showing the browser on a stream that it freezes or turns black sometimes

the computer i used for that call was a 2011 dell desktop with an i3 and 4 GB of RAM but something that helps lower the CPU usage is i installed a video card with NVENC support so the CPU does not encode the video

software encoding is a dog

that's because I have to have the browser window front and center in order for it to work, meaning I can't show something on the browser AND look at chat/Super Chats/Streamlabs tips at the same time

that started happening in the past month

if you still use Win7 having an aero glass theme with the see through windows makes OBS work a lot better

I'm on Win10

good then it should always work for everything

this is a Win7 laptop that was refurbished and upgraded to Win10 before I bought it

also people keep asking me to stream more modern games

but my computer can't stream anything newer than 2010

the only other thing i could suggest is make sure it has newest video drivers

I found this out the hard way when I tried to stream Deus Ex: Human Revolution a year ago

I'm gonna figure out a way to get a new comp in the next month

I need a second one anyway; when this computer broke a year and a half ago, I was screwed for a week

couldn't stream, couldn't work, couldn't make money

spent a lot of time drinking with friends or reading books

yeah i brought a backup couple of older laptops with me when i moved

since i couldn't bring all my stuff with me right away

I did have four laptops with me when I lived in the States, but I left the older ones behind because I could only bring so much stuff

and two of those laptops were partially broken and the third was a Macbook that was so old and slow it wouldn't run any modern software

moving to another country would be difficult for me i have too much shit i don't want to part with 😃